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Visit website →Atoms Raises $1.7 Billion Led by a16z
Travis Kalanick's industrial automation company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion in a round led by a16z.
BTL-3 27B Agentic Model Released
Bad Theory Labs has released BTL-3, a 27B open-weight agentic coding model that runs from a single 8.39GB file, under the Apache-2.0 license.
Microsoft unveils 4B image generation model Mage-Flow
Microsoft has unveiled Mage-Flow, an image generation and editing model that rivals large models with just 4B parameters.
Microsoft Unveils Browser Automation Agent Fara1.5-27B
Microsoft Research has released Fara1.5-27B, a multimodal web browser automation agent based on Qwen3.5-27B, on Hugging Face.
Cactus Adds Self-Confidence Probe to Gemma 4
Cactus added a 68k-parameter probe layer to Gemma 4 E2B and unveiled a hybrid inference system that uses the model's own error detection as a signal for cloud routing.
Samsung Unveils Android XR AI Smart Glasses
Samsung unveiled Android XR-based AI smart glasses developed in partnership with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker at Galaxy Unpacked.
Apple Sues Over OpenAI Hardware Project
As OpenAI develops AI hardware after acquiring Jony Ive's io Products, Apple has filed a lawsuit alleging trade secret misappropriation.
GLM 5.2 Ranks 3rd on ProgramBench
GLM 5.2 officially ranked 3rd on the ProgramBench benchmark, which tests reconstructing source code from binary executables.
Claude Opus 4.8, 45% Share on OpenRouter
Claude Opus 4.8 has emerged as the dominant model, accounting for 40% of Anthropic's total token consumption and 45% of dollar spend on OpenRouter.
GPT-5.6 Sol Accounts for 34% of OpenRouter Spending
On OpenRouter, GPT-5.6 Sol accounts for only 15% of OpenAI tokens but makes up an estimated 34% of spending.
Austria Launches GovGPT for 180,000 Civil Servants
Austria's federal data center is rolling out 'GovGPT,' an AI platform for civil servants built on Mistral open-weight models, to about 180,000 people.
NeuTTS-2E, emotion-controllable on-device TTS open-sourced
Neuphonic has open-sourced NeuTTS-2E, a 125M-parameter on-device TTS model capable of controlling 7 emotions.
Glow Emerges with $1.2B Valuation for Endpoint AI Security
AI agent endpoint security startup Glow has exited stealth with a Sequoia-led $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation.
US Army Burns Through AI Token Budget in Just One Month
The US Army exhausted its annual budget of 100 million AI tokens in just one month, forcing it to reintroduce usage limits.
NuExtract3 Gets Official Ollama Support
NuMind's open-weight 4B VLM NuExtract3 has been officially released on Ollama, enabling local structured document extraction.
Liquid AI Scales Vocabulary Without Retraining the Tokenizer
Liquid AI has unveiled a technique that expands the vocabulary of the LFM2.5-8B-A1B model from 65K to 128K without retraining from scratch.
PickUpstage Unveils Solar Open 2 250B
Upstage has released Solar Open 2, a 250B-scale open-weight MoE model that supports agentic workflows and 1M token context.
SkewAdam Cuts MoE Memory by 97%
A new optimizer called SkewAdam reduces optimizer state memory for MoE training from 50.6GB to 1.29GB, enabling 6.78B MoE training on a single 40GB GPU.
Verifying API Authenticity via LLM Random Number Bias
A paper reveals that LLMs' biased random number selection can be used as a fingerprint to verify whether an API endpoint is actually serving the model it claims to be.
Data Center Power Usage Projected to Quadruple by 2035
Surging AI computing demand is expected to push data center power usage to roughly 4 times current levels by 2035.